Excerpt from An Apology for the Study of Divinity: Being the Terminal Divinity Lecture Delivered in Bishop Cosin's Library Before the Bishop, the Dean and Chapter, and the University of Durham I may perhaps excite some surprise in your minds, when I say that the choice of a subject on which to address you has-caused me very considerable embarrassment. Whatever other difficulties may arise, it would seem that a science so comprehensive as divinity must at least present an ample harvest of subjects for discussion. But it is in good truth its extent which causes the difficulty, and perplexes the choice. A single lecture cannot describe the variety of objects which the science embraces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.